I would like to know if is possible to use AppleScript Editor to experiment syntax to populate an array don’t using AS but with Cocoa (before add the code to Xcode ASOC Project).
Basically I need to create a NSMutable array, populate it adding one item at time and after comparison a item is contained in the array remove this item from array:
In AppleScript:
set arrayObjects to {}
copy “A” to end of arrayObjects
copy “B” to end of arrayObjects
copy “C” to end of arrayObjects
if “B” is in arrayObjects then
– delete the item that in AS is not possible
end if
You’re probably looking for list methods like indexForObject and removeItemAtIndex. Unfortunately AppleScript doesn’t have these methods. If you know the index and every item in the list is text you could use code like this:
set arrayObjects to {}
copy "A" to end of arrayObjects
copy "B" to end of arrayObjects
copy "C" to end of arrayObjects
if "B" is in arrayObjects then
set item 2 of arrayObjects to missing value
set arrayObjects to text of arrayObjects
end if
this is the AppleScript “replica” of the NSMutableArray methods indexOfObject: and removeObjectAtIndex:
set array to {"alpha", "beta", "gamma", "delta", "epsilon"}
set theIndex to indexOfObject("delta", array)
if theIndex is not 0 then
set theList to removeObject from array at theIndex
end if
-- removeObjectAtIndex
on removeObject from aList at anIndex
if anIndex is 1 then
return rest of aList
else if anIndex is (count aList) then
return items 1 thru -2 of aList
else
return (items 1 thru (anIndex - 1) of aList) & (items (anIndex + 1) thru -1 of aList)
end if
end removeObject
-- indexOfObject
on indexOfObject(anItem, aList)
repeat with i from 1 to (count aList)
if item i of aList is anItem then return i
end repeat
return 0
end indexOfObject
Note: Be aware that indexes in AppleScript are 1-based but in Cocoa 0-based
